Japanese people

Quality:

Japanese people - East Asian ethnic group native to Japan. Article “Japanese people” in English Wikipedia has 87.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 99 references and 14 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.58 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 6426^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7373^rd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 8487^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9819^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Japanese people” was edited by 10 authors in English Wikipedia (8487^th place) and written by 21 authors in all languages (9819^th place).

Since the creation of article “Japanese people”, its content was written by 1004 registered users of English Wikipedia (6426^th place) and edited by 2939 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7373^rd place).

The article is cited 6392 times in English Wikipedia (3397^th place) and cited 47384 times in all languages (3361^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2411 in May 2023
• Global: #1442 in September 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2019 in January 2018
• Global: #4625 in January 2018

There are 50 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Japanese people		87.0662
2	Catalan (ca) Japonesos		86.0719
3	Indonesian (id) Orang Jepang		80.111
4	Chinese (zh) 日本人		72.6948
5	Japanese (ja) 日本人		69.9595
6	Belarusian (be) Японцы		68.3777
7	Hungarian (hu) Japánok		63.3174
8	Hindi (hi) जापानी लोग		52.1986
9	French (fr) Japonais (peuple)		51.9857
10	Tamil (ta) சப்பானிய மக்கள்		49.587

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Japanese people		8 878 075
2	Japanese (ja) 日本人		5 190 830
3	Russian (ru) Японцы		1 164 750
4	Chinese (zh) 日本人		830 900
5	Portuguese (pt) Japoneses		672 537
6	Turkish (tr) Japonlar		566 405
7	Spanish (es) Pueblo japonés		380 168
8	German (de) Japaner		270 894
9	Polish (pl) Japończycy		245 101
10	French (fr) Japonais (peuple)		219 788

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Japanese people		21 047
2	Japanese (ja) 日本人		12 235
3	Russian (ru) Японцы		4 336
4	Chinese (zh) 日本人		3 702
5	Portuguese (pt) Japoneses		1 434
6	Spanish (es) Pueblo japonés		1 258
7	Turkish (tr) Japonlar		1 079
8	German (de) Japaner		1 058
9	Indonesian (id) Orang Jepang		861
10	Persian (fa) مردمان ژاپنی		771

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Japanese people		1 004
2	Japanese (ja) 日本人		429
3	Russian (ru) Японцы		150
4	Chinese (zh) 日本人		150
5	German (de) Japaner		143
6	Portuguese (pt) Japoneses		90
7	Italian (it) Giapponesi		75
8	Korean (ko) 일본인		75
9	French (fr) Japonais (peuple)		68
10	Spanish (es) Pueblo japonés		67

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Japanese people		10
2	Japanese (ja) 日本人		5
3	Spanish (es) Pueblo japonés		3
4	Belarusian (be) Японцы		1
5	Italian (it) Giapponesi		1
6	Portuguese (pt) Japoneses		1
7	Arabic (ar) يابانيون		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Yaponlar		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Японци		0
10	Catalan (ca) Japonesos		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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